I would say my concern would be for the ladies and young girls who are working in sweatshop conditions for pennies per hour.

My heart goes out to them first.

Well, aye, the whole 'fashion industry' is a prime example of the patriarchy exploiting women at every available opportunity, from start to finish. Whilst the suffering of the women in the seatshops is the greater though, it doesn't detract from the fact that customers of the end products are exploited too, as the money they earn from their underpaid jobs has to go to buy the overpriced produce that the shops owned by the grossly overpaid capitalists offer, whether that produce fits or suits them or not, if, like me, they're unable to make their own clothes.

This whole rotten economic system, designed to benefit the sociopathically greedy at the expense of everyone else, pisses me off. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of humankind to come up with something that rewards sociophilic behaviour but doesn't benefit sociopathic behaviour.

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A client canceling a $500 job after I had already set aside the time, started the research and counted on the money. Yeah I am pissed. Usually jobs like that are ones I get on my own, and I would get a deposit but this one was through a writing service. I have been assured I will be "compensated for my time" - not sure what that means yet. This truly sucks, especially after taking off some time last week for Thanksgiving.

People flaking out on me - appears to be a major theme lately. NOT good. Especially when I go out of my way to do good work, be supportive of people when they really need it, etc. and still get cancelled on at the last minute, screwed over, stabbed in the back, bad mouthed, etc.

I will never be like that and thank goodness for the good people in my life.

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The tree I had planted when I purchased my home, had to be removed due to its health 4 weekends ago. I took a picture of before and after. It was not the first tree I have had to remove due to their health.

In the process of removal I had asked to have a a few living 4-6 inch limbs cut to a manageable size of which I received 12 to pick from. When it was time for the stump to be cut/removed: I asked for 4 late in life *slices* so I could count the rings. I was graced with 6.

My neighbor who always has a noisiness about him asked what I was doing with the *scraps from my tree. I said I will take the best of the stump to make a cutting board for my son and the branches to be cut to be used as coffee table coasters for him as a memory of his life here.

This afternoon: Nosy Neighbor presented to me HIS version of my idea from HIS cedar tree of both of my ideas. He had the gall to tell me: your Son will love the smell of these more... I politely said no thank you, and explained his memory of the Locust tree from our front yard will have a lot more meaning.

Miffed in Kansas...
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A client canceling a $500 job after I had already set aside the time, started the research and counted on the money. Yeah I am pissed. Usually jobs like that are ones I get on my own, and I would get a deposit but this one was through a writing service. I have been assured I will be "compensated for my time" - not sure what that means yet. This truly sucks, especially after taking off some time last week for Thanksgiving.

People flaking out on me - appears to be a major theme lately. NOT good. Especially when I go out of my way to do good work, be supportive of people when they really need it, etc. and still get cancelled on at the last minute, screwed over, stabbed in the back, bad mouthed, etc.

I will never be like that and thank goodness for the good people in my life.

Update to the above post: the day after the client canceled the $500 job he changed his mind again and wanted me to write it. I was wary but did the work and today the money is in my bank account. So that part ended well.

Last night I was editing an obituary for a friend's mother. I was basically finished but wanted to look at it one more time. My computer was acting sluggish so I decided to restart. Ugh, it went through the Grand Mother of all updates and took forever. It was already late at night and I thought I was gonna go insane waiting. I was finally able to go over the obit one more time and send it off. Minor irritation really. Life of a writer, lol, but I do get to work at home in my pjs so I really don't have a lot to complain about.

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that the tax collector’s online payment system wants to charge $4.00 for paying online.

GRRRRRRRRR

i am SO sending in a check with a nasty note!

I side with you, dee.
And I get pissed when we get "forced" to use an online reservation site for reserving a state camp site or cabin where they charge $9 per day as a reservation fee. When I've gone to the state-ran park office to reserve my site, they still charge $9 per day online fee. Their excuse is this fee helps pay for their online reservation system....even when processing a payment in person. Isn't that what the campground revenues and our state taxes help cover?

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Multiple, very annoying Robo Calls from a scam about school loans that switch phone numbers every time they call so I can't block them and makes it difficult to report them.
Dammit, I've paid off my school loans! And I never got calls like these until my loans were taken care of.

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She has been through hell, so believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into a fire and smiles.
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